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Re:An Early History of Pony by cpeterso on Saturday May 06, 2017 @05:05PM (#14282257)
> Unfortunately, a start-up based on a programming language is a notoriously bad idea. I’m not saying it’s impossible - but there isn’t a great track record for them

Any examples of successful startups based on a new programming language? Lightbend (previously Typesafe) worked on Scala, but the language existed before the company.

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Re:An Early History of Pony by tjalfi on Sunday May 07, 2017 @12:29AM (#14283859)
Forth Inc[0] might qualify. The company was founded by Chuck Moore and Elizabeth Rather in 1971. Chuck invented Forth and Elizabeth was the second person to learn it.

[0] https://www.forth.com/software-development-company/

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Re:An Early History of Pony by Someone on Saturday May 06, 2017 @07:07PM (#14282775)
If you leave out _new_, as the OP did, there's at least one example: Microsoft.
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Re:An Early History of Pony by digitalzombie on Sunday May 07, 2017 @12:06AM (#14283790)
That's funny. Microsoft took the main guy from Pony.

They're really invested in languages like C# and F#.

I guess you gotta be a big established company to afford to maintain programming language. Google have Go. Ericsson got Erlang.

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